I'd imagine it's a gorgeous frame, I had a too-small-for-me Nobilette a couple of years ago, and Mark's work is wonderful. It's kind of like buying a brand new car and the sales flunkie brings the car out front for you and then smacks the door into a pole when he gets out. You'd tell the sales manager to bring you another one just like the one you wanted, but it was the only one he had in that color.

About the paint, it's metallic paint, correct? That's very hard to touch up no matter what you do, because if you sand it to level the touchup paint spot with the surrounding paint, the metallic surface of the touchup spot is visibly a different color, due to the way the metal floats in it. I'd just touch it up and go.

All else aside, you're a lucky man to own a Nobilette, can't wait to see the pics.